Returning to the locations of his breakthrough hit The Wind Will Carry Us, Kiarostami opens up about his views on the purpose of cinema in the past and in the digital age.

Kiarostami’s first video-shot feature is both self-reflective and keenly observant of the lively spirits of AIDS orphans in Uganda.

An antiques dealer (Juliette Binoche) and a philosopher (William Shimell) may—or may not—be meeting for the first time in Abbas Kiarostami’s stimulating and provocative relationship drama.

Due to print availability issues, Fellow Citizen and Orderly or Disorderly will be shown on DVD. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Caught up in Tehran’s insane bottlenecks and gridlock, a traffic cop tries to enforce the rules and regulations in Kiarostami’s comic documentary portrait. Screening with Orderly or Disorderly.

Due to print availability issues, First Graders and Solution No. 1 will be shown on DVD. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Disruptive students in an elementary school are sent to the principal’s office for the familiar cycle of questioning, confession, and repentance in Kiarostami’s typically sly, observant documentary about grade-school rituals. Screening with Solution No. 1

A stunning five-part video work that engulfs the viewer in the mesmerizing details of small moments in mostly watery landscapes. One of Kiarostami’s most daring experiments. Screening with Roads of Kiarostami

A characteristically playful and philosophical examination of modern methods of education, Homework finds Abbas Kiarostami at his most curious and compassionate as he interviews children about their scholastic lives.

In the second part of Kiarostami’s celebrated Koker trilogy, the director’s onscreen alter-ego goes searching for the stars of his previous film, Where is the Friend’s Home?, in the earthquake-devastated rubble of a Northern Iranian village.

The marriage of a tax collector accused of taking bribes and his emotionally alienated wife (Shohreh Aghdashloo in one of her first screen roles) is in deep crisis.

Over 100 Iranian female stage and film actors, as well as Juliette Binoche, watch an off-screen performance of a tragedy by the great Persian poet Nazami Ganjavi.

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A program of short films from Director Abbas Kiarostami including No, Summer Afternoon and an episode from Tickets.

A man traverses Tehran’s hilly outskirts looking for a volunteer for a disturbing task in Kiarostami’s remarkable Cannes Palme d’Or winner.

In this elegant and engrossing drama, set entirely within the confines of a car, a woman ferries passengers by car from one place to another in Tehran.

In the magnificent concluding chapter of the “Koker” trilogy, Kiarostami now looks at the process of filmmaking from a double-layered remove, as a local stonemason, cast in a role in the film-within-the-film, continues to pursue his leading lady long after the director says “cut.”

Kiarostami’s first full-length feature depicts a resourceful but amoral 10-year-old boy stopping at nothing to see the Iranian national football team play an important match. Screening with Bread and Alley

Due to print availability issues, we will no longer be showing The Experience as part of this program.

A young teen orphan boy works where he sleeps, in a photography shop, which becomes an arena for his growing fascination with a more mature, middle-class girl. Screening with Bread and Alley (10m) and Breaktime (11m).

In the first part of Kiarostami’s internationally acclaimed “Koker” trilogy, a schoolboy’s journey to return his best friend’s notebook reveals much about the human condition. Screening with Two Solutions for One Problem

A camera crew imposes upon the people of a remote village, resulting in an uncommon meditation on culture and human activity that is one of Kiarostami’s crowning masterpieces.